Apparatus por separating soap bars



H. & A. PHELPS.

APPARATUS FOR SBPARATING SOAP BARS. No. 73,994;

Patented Feb. 4

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Letters Patent No. 73,994, dated February 4. 1868.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SEPABATING SOAP-BARS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAYQONCERN:

Be it known that we, HARVEY PHELPS and ALVAH PHELPS, of Albany, in the countyof Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and'useful Improvement in the Mode of Separating Soap-Bars," in order to accelerate their drying; and we do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe' apparatus, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this'specification, in which the figure represents a side elevation of the sdap-cutting and stamping apparatus" patented October 2, 1866,- show'ing our improvement thereon forlseparating the soapbars after being cut or severed from the slab."

The accompanying drawing does not represent the device for cutting, stamping, and edging, as that will be well understood by reference to our before-named patent, but the vertical red line is the supposed point where the slab is cut into bars." The cutting, stamping, &c., may be performed in various ways, and with difi'erent devices than those patented by us.

A, in the drawing, represents the table or frame to which the various devices are applied. The feeding or slab .-\carrying dcricaconsists of a hand-lever, B. t9 the shaftof which is secured a crank and pawl, G, which engages the ratchet-piece D. To the said shaft is. also secured a crank of a longer radius, 'with its pawlO, which engages into the polygon rdtchet-piece D, which is temporarily atiixed in a sliding carriage, Eithat conveys the sdap-rack or frame Fforward until it is full of separated soap-bars, when the rack'F is removed to the drying-room, and its place on the carriage E taken by an empty rack,- and the carriage returned within the frame A. It will be readily understood that the pawl I) of the soap-separating frame has a further throw than the pawl which conveys the slab, so that the soap-rack F has angtccelerated motion to' that of the fecdguide which conveys the slab. Both the ratchet's D and D are detachable. and are formed with the requisite number of graduatlonsof the notches.

The cranks may-alsohe varied, as to their radius, to correspond with the cutting-devices, as, in case there are to be used several wires in the transverse cutting-frame, then they should be lengthened, and' shortened if onlyo single bar is to be cut at each'stroke of the cutting-frame- By this means the soap-bars will be uniformly divided and separated from each other. A

A folding guide-frame, G, for the carriage E,'is provided, in order to support the carriage E, and the soapraclc resting thereon, and also that when the apparatus is not in use it will occupy a comparatively small space.

live claim the application to soap cutting-apparatus of a carriage, E, having an accelerated motion with relation to the slubfeod D, for the purpose set forth.

' HARVEY PHELPS,

. ALVAH PHELPS. Witnesses:

J. W. Lucnsn,

H. A. PHELPS. 

